Posted on 05/26/2006 6:11:37 AM PDT by white trash redneck
BRUSSELS (EJP)---The Brussels regional parliament has blocked the implementation of a cooperation agreement between Belgian and Israeli universities on neurosurgery research because of political considerations, EJP has learned.
A scientific and industrial cooperation agreement, signed in 1998 between the governments of the Brussels regional government and Israel, was suspended in March 2002, in the midst of the second intifada, by a Socialist-Christian-Democrat-Green majority of the parliament on the ground that it should be freeze “until a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine will allow a fructuous cooperation.”
Since then, several demands, mainly within the liberal opposition, have been introduced in the parliament to relaunch the cooperation agreement, but they have been rejected.
Campaign for new agreement
“Since the suspension of the agreement, new elements have appeared in the Middle East peace process which allow the consideration of renewed cooperation between the two partners,” Viviane Teitelbaum, a Jewish liberal MP, who is actively campaigning in favour of the agreement, told EJP.
She, and other Liberal Brussels MPs, this week introduced a new resolution in the Parliament to ask for the cooperation to be relaunched.
“It’s important that, like the European Union and other European countries, the Brussels parliament realizes that one can criticize a democratically elected government while maintaining constructive relations in the fields of economy, culture or research,” she added.
Contacted by EJP, the press office of the head of the Brussels government was unable to comment.
The suspension of the agreement is blocking the implementation of the cooperation between the neurosurgery departments of the Erasme university Hospital in Brussels and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on joint research into patients suffering from the Parkinson disease.
“I want to express my profound disagreement with the decision of the Brussels region,” Professor Jacques Brotchi, head of the Erasme hospital neurosurgery department, told RTL television.
“We have the chance to offer the Jerusalem university a clinical platform they don’t have and they can offer us research we do not have,” Brotchi stressed.
Opportunity for medical progress
Brotchi, who is also a Liberal member of the Belgian Senate, added: “Why can’t we do it together? We will go faster if we work together and the patients suffering from Parkinson disease will be the main recipients.”
A world renowned doctor, Brotchi has developed an active collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on joint research projects on the brain.
Prof. Segev, head of the Jerusalem Center, said he doesn’t understand that “one can sacrifice science.”
“I am calling on the European scientists to collaborate with us and not boycott us. It’s an error.” Segev, who is also a peace militant, said.
However, I find it interesting that the Israeli, Prof. Segev, is described in the final paragraph as a "peace militant." Sheesh! What does he expect? When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Did this yo-yo think that because he held politically correct views about the palesimians, his leftie buddies might overlook him?
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Yet another stellar example proving that science and politics are two positively charged occupations which are really repelling when they meet.
Somebody refresh my memory; there must have been some reason we saved all these losers from Hitler, but it escapes me at present...
Because we'd have looked like hypocrits if we only attacked Japan in response to Pearl Harbor.
There were people in this country who whined, "I don't know WHY we're fighting Germany, THEY didn't attack Pearl Harbor!" Sound familiar?
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Bear in mind that the Mayor of Brussels is Moslem and that the most popular name for children born in that city is Mohammed. This is beyond dhimmitude. Brussels is lost.
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One would have hoped that in the interests of humanity the above sentiment would have ruled, but no such luck when dealing with Europe.
Brussles has been a political boil on the arse of the globe for years. They surrendered.
It's not surprising though. EUropeans have always hated the Jewish people and we know they have no problem with genocide if they think it's "for the greater good".
Is it possible the Belgians are bigger a$$holes than the French?
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Maybe if it were ammended to 'medical experimentation *on* Israelis', the belgians would be more agreeable.
Guess the Belgians would rather work with those ground-breaking Muslim doctors, maiking all those breakthroughs in neurology and other areas. Wait a sec - there aren't any!
That's pretty impressive.
Maybe for their waffles, and the fictional Hercule poirot..
If they'd thought about it a tiny bit harder they might have found a way to get rid of Hitler while leaving France, Holland, Belgium and the rest under some suitable ruler for them. Huey Long might have been a good candidate...
Actually, Al Capone might have taken the job....
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